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This collection contains both digital and hard copy records related to Vannevar Bush and his work that M. E. Hopper obtained while working on related projects at MIT. This includes background research for this event.
Hopper, M. E. (1998, October). Hypertext in historical context: Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson revisited. Media-in-Transition Project / Communications Forum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
The links below are related to the contents of the archive.
Differential Analyzer
Bush’s Analog Solution (Computer History Museum)
Vannevar Bush’s Differential Analyzer (Kent H Lundberg, MIT)
Differential Analyzer Machines (Stan Augarten, Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers)
Differential Analyzers (Michael R. Williams, Engineering and Technology History Wiki)
Differential Analyzer (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Differential Analyzer (Wikipedia)
Analog Computers (Computer History Museum)
Analog Computers (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Analog Computer (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Analog Computer (Wikipedia)
Dr. Bush Goes to Washington
Memex
Memex Animation – Vannevar Bush’s Diagrams Made Real (YouTube)
As We May Think (Vannevar Bush, The Atlantic)
Memex (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Memex (Wikipedia)
Symposium
The New Media Museum has a complete set of video tapes of the MIT/Brown Vannevar Bush Symposium held at MIT in 1995. Hopper discovered that the MIT Networked Multimedia Information Services project she was working on had been a partner for the event, and it was the funding source for broadcasting it over the Mbone. At that point in time videos of the event were not posted online. The New Media Archive includes correspondence between Hopper and Michael L. Dertouzos at MIT about permission to obtain a full set of the videos for review in an attempt to get permission to publish them and use them for academic purposes. There is also correspondence with Rosemary Simpson at Brown University about obtaining permission. It was not granted, but most of the videos were eventually published by the Doug Engelbart Institute. However, some videos in the New Media Museum’s collection have never been published.
The MIT/Brown Vannevar Bush Symposium (Doug Engelbart Institute)
Symposium Celebrates Vannevar Bush vision (October 4, 1995)
Bookshelf
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Vannevar Bush (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Vannevar Bush (Wikipedia)
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